Polywell Awareness

zbarlici · Post by **zbarlici** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:52 am

I had no idea that the number of members on this forum is so high... this poll is to find out how you first heard about this nuclear fusion approach.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:13 am

With my vote it is unanimous - the video.

Giorgio · Post by **Giorgio** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:20 am

It was nice to go back to check my Polywell link folder to remember how I got knowledge of it.

It was around in start of 2006 thank to a Hirsch-Farnsworth fusor search that I reached the 5th US-Japan IEC Workshop:
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iecworkshop/PD ... ski_US.pdf

I knew Bussard for his Ramjet work, so I started googling to get more info, and after a couple of days I remember that my first thought was: "this makes sense..."

Anyhow, a small trivia, as many might not know.
Guess who is the guy at page 6 of that PDF

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:25 am

OK now I need another vote.

I saw the video on a blog.

djolds1 · Post by **djolds1** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:41 am

I was a lurker on the forums at fusor.net.

EricF · Post by **EricF** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:04 am

I got here in a really roundabout way.

My friends dad did some consulting work for ITER, and brought me back a CD they give folks explaining the concept. Kind of like a demo/business card.

I started googling terminology from the CD and found Dr. Bussards google tech talk, and watched it a few times (mostly in installments. Trying to define he terminology based on sentence context every other sentence gave me a headache). So I had to google more terminology from the video and found iecfusiontech.blogspot.com, read that for a few weeks before finding a link to talk-polywell.

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:56 pm

I can't vote cuz you don't have what I suspect will be the biggest answer, Tom Ligon's article in Analog magazine.

CaptainBeowulf · Post by **CaptainBeowulf** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:09 pm

I was googling for fusion research and came across Joe Strout's webpage The "Polywell" Approach to Fusion.

Betruger · Post by **Betruger** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:55 pm

The phrase "Should Google go nuclear?" got my attention from some list of links on some unrelated page I don't recall. The bit about funding Polywell (IIRC the full 200M$) being Google's yearly electricity bill was especially interesting.

Aero · Post by **Aero** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:52 pm

Cosmic Log

TallDave · Post by **TallDave** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:15 am

choff · Post by **choff** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:24 am

A magazine cover that showed the empire state building getting bombed.

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